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H. A. V. Post
(1832 - 1914)
Home State: New York
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Sharpshooters
Before Antietam
He was appointed Colonel of the 2nd Regiment of Sharpshooters on its organization early in 1862.
On the Campaign
In command of the 2nd US Sharpshooters, part of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division, I Corps. The Brigade advanced through the Cornfield early on the 17th in close support of Brigadier General Gibbon's 4th 'Black Hat' Brigade. Colonel Post was wounded in action there and went to the rear.
The rest of the War
He resigned his commission and was discharged 18 November 1862.
After the War
He founded his own firm in railroad banking in New York after the War.
References & notes
Photo above from one at the US Library of Congress. Service information from Stevens1 - who also published the photo seen here. Further bio details from his death notice in the New York Times (Tuesday, January 27, 1914, pg. 9).
Birth
1832 in NY
Death
01/25/1914; New York City, NY
1 Stevens, Charles Augustus, Berdan's United States Sharpshooters in the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865, St. Paul (MN): The Price-McGill Company, 1892, pp. 28, 202, 515 [AotW citation 944]